An ideal way for people to query graph-based knowledge, including triplestores in the semantic web, would be for them to ask questions in a natural language (NL). However, existing NL query interfaces to graph-based data have limited expressive power and cannot accommodate arbitrarilynested quantification (i.e. phrases such as “a gangster who joined every gang”) together with multiple complex p...

Comprehension of plausible and implausible object- and subject-relative clause sentences with and without prepositional phrases was examined. Undergraduates read each sentence then evaluated a statement as consistent or inconsistent with the sentence. Higher acceptance of consistent than inconsistent statements indicated reliance on syntactic analysis. Higher acceptance of plausible than implau...

This paper argues that double-object verbs decompose into two heads, an external-argumentselecting CAUSE predicate (vCAUSE) and a prepositional element, PHAVE. Two primary types of argument are presented. First, a consideration of the well-known Oerhle’s generalization effects in English motivate such a decomposition, in combination with a consideration of idioms in ditransitive structures. The...

We present a new algorithm for classification based on Markov random walks. We evaluate our method, TUMBL, on the ppattach prepositional phrase attachment data set and report top performance when the amount of training data is severely limited.

I:n this paper, we describe a new corpus-based approach to prepositional phrase a t t achment disambiguation, and present results colnparing peffo> mange of this a lgori thm with other corpus-based approaches to this problem.

This study investigated the acquisition of grammatical aspect by Iranian EFL learners. The main question addressed in this study was whether Iranian EFL learners could distinguish conditions under which they must use either the perfective aspect  or imperfective aspect. A group of 110 adult, Persian-Speaking learners of English both at BA and MA levels Took a Michigan test based on which they w...

3. Caution.....don’t plagiarize! 4. If a term needs to be explained....explain it! !" A thesaurus can be your best friend! 1. Look for repetition of a word or phrase within your first draft. 2. Ask yourself what other word or phrase could you use. 3. Use the thesaurus! !" KISS....Keep it short & sweet! 1. Look for ways to use the positive verses the negative. 2. Focus on the educational implica...